Light Therapy Boxes are highly effective at treating Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of winter depression which affects millions of people every winter between September and April, in particular during December, January and February. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is caused by a biochemical imbalance in the hypothalamus due to the shortening of daylight hours and the lack of sunlight in winter. For many people Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a seriously disabling illness, preventing them from functioning normally without continuous medical treatment. For others, it is a milder condition, causing discomfort, referred to as sub-syndromal Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter blues. There is also a rare reverse form of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), known as summer Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), where symptoms occur each summer and remit in winter.

Common symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) include:

• A desire to oversleep and difficulty staying awake, but in some cases, disturbed sleep and early morning wakening
• Feeling fatigue and an inability to carry out normal routine
• A craving for carbohydrates and sweet foods, usually resulting in weight gain
• Feelings of misery, guilt and loss of self-esteem, sometimes hopelessness and despair, sometimes apathy and loss of feelings
• An irritability and desire to avoid social contact
• A tension and inability to tolerate stress
• A decreased interest in sex and physical contact
• In some sufferers, extremes of mood and short periods of hypomania (over activity) in spring and autumn

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) symptoms usually reoccur regularly each winter, starting between September and November and continuing until March or April; a Caribbean Sun Box Light Therapy SAD Sun Box or the new Caribbean Sun Box Blue Light Therapy SAD Sun Boxdiagnosis can be made after 2 or more consecutive winters of symptoms. In sub-syndromal SAD, symptoms such as tiredness, lethargy, sleep and eating problems occur, but depression and anxiety are absent or mild.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) symptoms disappear in spring, either suddenly with a few weeks of hypomania/hyperactivity, or gradually, depending on the intensity of sunlight in the spring/early summer. In summer SAD, symptoms may be related to excessive heat rather than light and may include irritability and lethargy rather than oversleeping and overeating.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) may begin at any age, but the main age of onset is 18-30. It occurs throughout the northern and southern hemispheres but is rare in those living within 30 degrees of the Equator, where daylight hours are long, constant and extremely bright.

An increasingly popular choice of treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is the Caribbean Sun Box Light Therapy SAD Sun Box and new Caribbean Sun Box Blue Light Therapy SAD Sun Box whose features include:

• The Caribbean Sun Box Light Therapy SAD Sun Box delivers a full 10,000 LUX of light generated from 108 LED Solid State elements
• The new Caribbean Sun Box Blue Light Therapy SAD Sun Box is the newest treatment for SAD
• All of our Caribbean Sun Light Therapy Boxes are Green Planet Friendly and amazingly only use 9 watts of power!
• All of our State of the Art Caribbean Sun Light Therapy Boxes include a 30 day unconditional money back guarantee!
• All of our Solid State Electronic Caribbean Sun Light Therapy Boxes include with a 10 year guarantee against any and all defects.

Light therapy has been proven effective in over 80% of diagnosed cases, with exposure from 30 minutes to several hours per day to very bright light, at least 10 times the intensity of ordinary domestic lighting. Ordinary light bulbs and fittings are not strong enough. Whereas the average home or office lighting deliver an intensity of 200-500 lux, the minimum dose necessary to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is 2500 lux. Our Caribbean Sun Light Therapy Boxes deliver up to 10,000 lux, which can shorten treatment time.

Light treatment should be used daily in winter, starting in early autumn when the first symptoms appear. It consists of sitting 2-3 feet away from a specially designed light box, wearing a Light Visor, or waking up to dawn simulator. Allow the light to shine on the eyes. While getting your light treatment carry out normal duties; eating, writing, reading, etc. It is not necessary to stare at the light during the session, but keep in mind that the more photons that reach the retina, the faster the session will be.

Treatment is usually effective within 3-4 days and the effect continues provided it is used every day. Sun glasses, tinted lenses, or any device which blocks the light to the Retina of the eye, should not be worn. Daily exposure to as much natural daylight as possible can be of help.